How do you ensureyour broadband
is trustworthy?

Connectivity you can trust

Providing safe, consistent and cost-effective access to the Internet for your Trust.

We understand that it is important for multi-academy trusts to offer a consistency of service so that each academy can benefit from working closely with the other academies in the trust. The good news is that developing an ICT strategy with consistent, cost-effective services that empowers teachers and fuels innovation doesn't need to cost the earth.

We know that when it comes to connectivity, you need to partner with an Internet Service Provider that inspires trust and confidence. One that supports your journey to the cloud, allows you to easily access the data you need to help raise trust standards and ensures that you are always keeping your academies protected online.

By procuring one central connectivity deal from RM for one of our regional clusters we were able to achieve better economies of scale and pay significantly less than we had done for our previous contract

Consistency

With academies spread across multiple sites, potentially spanning several counties, all with different connectivity services and contracts it can often be hard for senior leaders within a trust to ensure that they are delivering a consistently reliable Internet connection into each of those academies. Using one provider across all sites in the trust allows you to:

Enable greater consistency in services across the trust and greater reliability in your connection.

Use one service provider for all of your academies, irrespective of geography.

Implement the same systems & processes, such as change requests, across the trust to avoid confusion.

Standardise the start date of contracts across the trust and manage them centrally.

Assign one dedicated coordinator for the trust to manage your transition from start to finish, allowing you to concentrate on those areas we know are important to you.

Cost-effective

Being part of a trust provides a unique opportunity to make the most out of the budgets available and focus your investment on teaching and learning. There are several ways to use your scale to achieve value for money when it comes to ICT but a central strategy and receiving support and services from one partner are central to this. With one central connectivity provider you can:

Be flexible with your billing, paying more upfront in year one to cover installation costs and less in years 2 & 3.

Achieve greater economies of scale by getting a better price point for your trust than you would get if you were to look at each individual academy independently.

Reduce onsite costs for the trust, as almost every element of our service is maintained, managed and hosted in the cloud.

Spread the costs of Excess construction charges over your contract term if they are identified at the site survey stage.

Manage the change process and take steps to minimalise the impact, allowing you to focus on education.

Consistency

Online Safety has been a key part of all educational agendas for almost a decade, but with Ofsted’s latest safeguarding measures, the launch of the Prevent Duty and the recent update to DfE’s Keeping Children Safe in Education it’s now vital that your academies stay ahead of the curve and ensure all staff have access to the right technology, expertise and training to keep students safe. Our connectivity specialists are experienced and knowledgeable in latest policies and guidelines that relate to Internet and e-safety in education.

Cost-effective

Using one provider for Online Safety across your trust can save costs long term as you are able to look at things from a trust level and then cascade policies and resources down to each of your individual academies. Our Online Safety consultancy and workshops are aimed specifically at the local governing body of your trust, removing the need to go through the process with each individual academy.

Having trust wide filtering and monitoring systems in place can also save you a huge amount of cost in terms of peoples time.

Cloud based monitoring solutions that are proactive in their approach, eliminating the operational burden and legal risk involved in monitoring IT use, as all reviews are in the hands of child protection and forensic experts.

SafetyNet cloud based filtering that gives you granular control over your filtering policies with a hierarchical structure to allow consistent MAT wide deployment.

Providing your staff with the data they need to form successful safeguarding strategies based on real knowledge rather than them having to spend hours trawling through various reports to find the information that is relevant to them.